From past to present

Long afternoons spent in the great eighteenth-century garden of our ancestral villa, shaded by stately trees and lush trees.
Echo so, after so long, unforgettable moments of my happy childhood and back, are always present, memories of childhood, a past that seems to no longer exist, but that there is alive, an integral part of our consciousness and therefore of our lives.
My father told us of his beautiful young family and his grandmother Nicolina prestigious of which he recalled the strong personality, strong character and proud, the deep attachment to his loved ones and all that belonged to her, especially the magnificent estate of Staines which was extremely proud.
"You are like her ..." - he often told me, perhaps they hope that I, like my great-grandmother Nicolina Staiti, i always had love and care for our land.
Many years have passed since then, during which my profession as a teacher of letters and family commitments I have never turned away from the responsibility to preserve and enhance, with my two sons John and Maureen, our property, inherited from my father Vincenzo Alestra, along with great moral values ​​and human who was able to give us.